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The folks over at Against Monopoly alert us to the fact that a Finnish software/gaming development company has applied for a US trademark on the term "pwnage" in the video game space. You'd think that the nearly 2 million Google results that show up on the term would suggest that it's already generic and not deserving of a trademark, but I guess we'll find out what the USPTO has to say about the matter soon enough.

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